Zachary Barr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Barr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Barr |
| SIGNATURE | BARR Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Isis Bibliography
The Isis bibliography of the history of science has been published continuously since the first issue of the journal in 1913. This essay examines how information practices used to produce the bibliography have shaped, and were shaped by, the evolving discipline of the history of science. We first focus on the intellectual endeavors of George Sarton, who used the bibliography to help define and create a new academic field: the history of science. …
Ernst Mach's Popular Science
This essay examines the physicist Ernst Mach’s popular work. Like many other scientists in late nineteenth-century Central Europe, he viewed the popular genre as a means not only of edifying the lay public but of communicating arguments to other specialists. In many cases, he used his popularizations to draw his colleagues’ attention to the biological and evolutionary features of scientific reasoning, although his own understanding of those featu…
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Ernst Mach's Popular Science
This essay examines the physicist Ernst Mach’s popular work. Like many other scientists in late nineteenth-century Central Europe, he viewed the popular genre as a means not only of edifying the lay public but of communicating arguments to other specialists. In many cases, he used his popularizations to draw his colleagues’ attention to the biological and evolutionary features of scientific reasoning, although his own understanding of those featu…
The Isis Bibliography
The Isis bibliography of the history of science has been published continuously since the first issue of the journal in 1913. This essay examines how information practices used to produce the bibliography have shaped, and were shaped by, the evolving discipline of the history of science. We first focus on the intellectual endeavors of George Sarton, who used the bibliography to help define and create a new academic field: the history of science. …
Art (1 works) · Bibliography (1 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · German Social Sciences and History (1 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (1 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (1 works) · Library science (1 works) · Mach number (1 works) · Mechanics (1 works)